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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance."
George Bernard Shaw
Catherine was still searching the internet when Nick and Warrick came back from their crime scene.
"You guys all done?"
"Yeah, the guy dropped his wallet on the way in. We found him about three blocks away at a pawnshop, trying to get rid of the loot. He confessed. Anything else come in?" Nick said, he was surprised to see Catherine still in office.
"So, what do you guys know about Sara's past." There was no point in dancing around the subject. Catherine wanted to know, and she wanted know now.
"Why you so interested in Sara? What's got your panties in a bunch?" Warrick said. He had been shocked to hear that Catherine had willingly spent time with her, now she wanted to know about Sara's past. Something was up.
"Yeah, you'd want to know about her panties, wouldn't you?" Nick snorted. Both Catherine and Warrick glared at him, both of their faces turning red with embarrassment.
"Anyways" Catherine commented trying to forget what Nick had just said, "When Sara and I were talking about the case, she said something that made me curious. She said something of the 'awfulness' of group homes. It was strange and out of context for Sara. She had this look on her face like she knew first hand what a group home was like." Catherine stated. Nick and Warrick just nodded, they all had wondered what the mystery that was Sara was. Catherine continued, "I found one article on the National Crime Database about a Laura Sidle stabbing to death Michel Sidle and that a unnamed child was taken in to protective services. But that was all I could find. I asked Griss, and he flew off the handle bars, so there's got to be something we don't know. I've been searching the internet trying to get something."
"You know, Sara will kill you if she finds out you're trying to snoop around in her personal business." Nick chastised.
"Yeah, but I don't know, this kid has seemed to bring about something in Sara. So maybe she won't kill me. Aren't you guys the least bit interested?" Catherine questioned knowing full well that she could get the guys to do almost anything for her.
"Yeah, a bit, but I don't know it kind of seems wrong." Warrick added.
"Ok, well than you guys can go and sit in the break room for the next four hours till shift is over. There's been nothing coming in, so you can play the waiting game, or you can get on a computer and help me. At least it would be something to pass the time." Catherine said. Reluctantly both men agreed. Catherine and Warrick went to work on the internet while Nick went to the basement of the lab where the archaic documents were stored. Two hours later Nick came running into Catherine's office.
"I think I found something!" Nick laid the sheet of paper he had printed off on the disk. "Tamales Bay Daily- Murder at Local B&B" The article, which was about twenty two years old, went on to fill in the details of what little information Catherine had found earlier. Accompanied with the article was a picture of police rushing a young girl to safety. There was no question the young girl was Sara. The dark hair, large eyes, and gap in her teeth were an exact match. The article didn't mention the child's name but stated that was now in the care of DCFS and would most likely be sent to a group home.
"Where did you find this?" Catherine asked shocked from the finding, but also shocked from the article.
"It was on one of the old micro-fish, or phish or whatever it's called." Nick solemnly stated. He was disturbed by what he found, but also by the realization that he had gone behind his friend's back. They had always been good friends, but he couldn't understand how Sara had not said anything to him. He knew she had experienced some rough cases, but they had always talked it out, how had he not picked up on something so life-defining from Sara.
"So she couldn't have been more than 12 or 13 at the time." Warrick quietly said breaking the silence that had fallen over the group. Catherine, instantly thinking of Lindsey just said.
"Wow" Warrick and Nick agreed. This enlightenment explained why Sara reacted so strongly to some cases. It, in a way to Catherine, explained what may have been Grissom's objectives for sending Sara to the hospital, rather than have her process the crime scene.
"What do we do now?" Nick asked.
"We'll have to talk to her eventually. Let her know that we know." Warrick added.
"Somehow, I think, even though it sounds far fetch, the more time Sadie spends at Sara's, the more open Sara will be with us. The kid had an affect on her. I agree with Grissom that the kid might be good for Sara. We'll just have to wait and see what happens." Catherine added. They each gathered their things and went their separate ways to process their new found knowledge.
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